In order to be able to develop and test our grid services as easily and quickly as possible, we will need to have:

the full version of Globus Toolkit installed on your development machine;

access to the globus and root users.

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Tips & Tricks

When testing your application with services running on several different machines, it might be handy to:

open the terminals inside the same window using tabs (CTRL+SHIFT+T or File/Open Tab);

use authentication keys for ssh authentication in order to avoid having to type the same password over and over again. To do so run ‘ssh-keygen’ on your client machine, then copy your ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to the ~/.ssh/ directory of every user of every machine you need to frequently log in to;

use CTRL+R to search your command history when you need to run a command you have previously run;